THEATRE

blitz6 a.m. How to disappear completely

The most visionary Greek theatre group of the younger generation returns to the Onassis Cultural Centre with an international co-production after a three-year tour in Europe. Imagining theatre as a construction site for building utopias, blitz transports us to the forbidden zone of a future happiness. There where we disappear, utopia may appear.

MUSIC

Rudresh Mahanthappa

The saxophonist who loves messing about with Charlie Parker. It’s been said that that’s a lot like Einstein messing about with Isaac Newton!

11 November - 29 November 2015

VISUAL ARTS

Transitions Central Europe: Dan Perjovschi

From the Balkans to Latin America and from there to Central Europe: The Rumanian visual artist and his caustic marker visit for the third time the OCC.

11 November - 29 November 2015

FESTIVALS

Transitions 3. Central Europe

Following on from the Balkans and Latin America, it’s the turn of the radical, independent Central European scene to ‘occupy’ the OCC this November. Transitions 3 opens with the world première of Árpád Schilling’s new and eagerly-awaited play, “Day of fury”.

11 November - 12 November 2015

THEATRE

Transitions Central Europe: The Day of FuryÁrpád Schilling

Transitions 3 opens with the world première of Árpád Schilling’s new and eagerly-awaited play. A musical of those in revolt: a tragi-comic work inspired by a Hungarian nurse in black heralds the much anticipated return to Athens of the award-winning director.

13 November 2015

18:00Main Stage

Free admission

CINEMA

Transitions Central Europe: Hommage to Kornél Mundruczó's Cinema

Three movies by the Cannes superstar and creator of the awarded film "White God", Kornél Mundruczó's.

14 November - 15 November 2015

THEATRE

Transitions Central Europe: Our SecretsBéla Pintér

Secrets and lies of Hungary in the 1980s: In this critically acclaimed comic tragedy of dark times in the Eastern Bloc, an opponent of the regime and a secret-police informer find themselves together in a ball room in communist Hungary.

17 November 2015

18:00Main Stage

Free admission

THEATRE

Transitions Central Europe: Audition for a demonstrationLola Arias

“If you could turn the clock back, which historical events would you like to be at and what role would you play there?” A performance which reworks political events from the past live on stage...

THEATRE

Impulsive, subversive, cyberpunk Yvonne. A psychological thriller which wears its Hitchcockian influences on its sleeve, this award-winning production occupies the grey zone between theatre and cinema.

2 December - 16 December 2015

19:00

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Three Wednesdays for the Digital RevolutionΑ' Cycle | Talks in the context of the exhibition Digital Revolution

What are the components of Digital Revolution? How far or near are we to it? These three talks will change your view of technology.

4 December - 6 December 2015

MUSIC

5th Greek Jazz Panorama

A three-day festival dedicated to the contemporary Greek jazz and improvisation scene. Triumphantly setting the outward-looking tone the festival has always aimed for and achieved, five outstanding Greek combos take to the stage with their invited guests.

19 December 2015 - 3 January 2016

THEATRE

Akyllas Karazisis“Faith, hope, and charity” by Ödön von Horváth

Is humanity always a victim in times of crisis? The actor and director Akyllas Karazisis seeks to find out, directing Ödön von Horváth’s tragicomic dystopian play and offering up a wise commentary on the barbarity of an era.

THEATRE

Chekhov Moscow Art TheaterThe Karamazovs

Dostoyevsky in the solarium. The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoyevsky’s monumental swan song, in a subversive, five-hour, adults-only production from Konstantin Bogomolov, the enfant terrible of the Russian theatre.

THEATRE

Io VoulgarakiIntolerance

Co-existence as ongoing civil strife. Inspired by a legendary silent film, a talented young director and a cast of stars give us a hugely atmospheric silent music-theatre epic addressing socio-political and existential self-knowledge

22 January - 24 January 2016

Participation is free.
Registration is required.

TALKS & THOUGHTS

HackTheBook: Redefining the concept of the book

What is the essence of a book? What defines it? Talks, discussions and a two-day hackathon will re-examine the book as such, advancing new propositions and ideas.

3 February - 14 February 2016

THEATRE

Anestis Azas & Prodromos TsinikorisClean City

Friends, Athenians! How ‘clean’ are you? Down with the stereotypes! Athens’ immigrant cleaning ladies becomes the ideal protagonists of this international documentary theatre co-production from the amazing young duo, Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris.

13 February 2016

MUSIC

Ergon EnsembleHommage to Claude Vivier

The Ergon Ensemble, a group of musicians from Greece who adore contemporary music, in a major tribute to Claude Vivier. The French-Canadian composer was a genius whose life was snatched away from him. In his unending search for the new, he transcended every geographical and stylistic boundary.

THEATRE

La Mélancolie des DragonsPhillipe Quesne

Hard-rock Disneyland. What are a heavy metal band, a car and a granny doing on the top of a snow-topped mountain? The miracle-worker extraordinaire of the French avant-garde makes his Greek debut with an iconoclastic production in praise of friendship.

26 February - 29 February 2016

DANCE

Iris KarayanALASKA

One of the key representatives of Greece’s contemporary dance reality, Iris Karayan is a choreographer of existential quests and social concerns. Here, she creates a piece for five bodies/performers that set out to redefine the way in which they relate to one another.

4 March 2016

19:00Upper Stage

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Body & Gender

Greek and foreign artists, writers and researchers discuss why gender has become yet again an area of confrontation, inspiration and struggle.

23 March - 24 March 2016

DANCE

3rd Young Choreographers Festival: Harry Koushoslacrimal

Nine musicians and 40 dancers explore the expressive power of lament, initiating the public in a disarming and awakening experience. Composer Dimitrios Skyllas and choreographer Harry Koushos come together in a journey, whose final destination is catharsis itself.

23 March - 24 March 2016

DANCE

3rd Young Choreographers Festival: Ioanna AngelopoulouPalm in Palm

Taking as a starting point Hesiod’s "Theogony", this work is about the birth of the world. Chaos, Night, Gaia, and Uranus, freedom, and oppression are interconnected in a dance production that re-examines the wisdom of myths and their erotic overtones.

30 March 2016

MUSIC

Giovanni Guidi / Gianluca Petrella / Louis Sclavis

The jazz of the future from Giovanni Guidi: The 30-year-old Italian pianist never hesitates before setting off along new routes of musical exploration, and his multifaceted achievements in the jazz idiom have earned him international acclaim

THEATRE

Complicite / Simon McBurneyThe Encounter

An ‘exotic’ hi-tech experience beams us into the tropical rain forests of the Amazon and into the realms of the subconscious. Our guide, the founder of the company that would go on to change the contemporary theatre for good: Simon McBurney in person!

2 April - 3 April 2016

MUSIC

dissonArt ensemble"Pierrot Lunaire" by Arnold Schönberg

Arnold Schoenberg’s most famous work and a touchstone of musical modernism, “Pierrot Lunaire” has been turned into music theatre production by the combined forces of the dissonArt ensemble, composer Dimitris Maronidis and director Alexandros Efklidis.

5 April 2016

20:30Main Stage

Free admission, on a strictly first come, first served basis. It is necessary to book your seat at boxoffice@sgt.gr.

CINEMA

Fire at sea / FuocoammareGianfranco Rosi

Gianfranco Rosi, who won the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, is coming to Athens. The director will be present for the première of the film, which he will introduce at the OCC.

MUSIC

Diotima

Quatuor Diotima awakens memories of the great music history of Europe.

21 April - 25 April 2016

Upper Stage

Free admission

THEATRE

Youth Theatre Festival 2016From the writing of a play to the staging of a theatrical production...

Theatrical masterpieces –both classic and modern– provide the raw material for fledgling theatre professionals to research and experiment with in the context of this year’s Youth Theatre Festival. On stage from an early age!

23 April - 24 April 2016

MUSIC

Breakfast Club

London’s Breakfast Club quartet joins forces with a team of architects, photographers, visual artists and actors to invite/challenge Athenians to re-embrace their city’s public space through three urban dérives/concerts.

1 May - 20 July 2016

VISUAL ARTS

3 urban experiments by Candy Chang

Having intervened from Hong Kong to Las Vegas in anything and everything that could be considered public space, the celebrated visual artist is coming to Athens with three of her site-specific installations.

10 June - 10 July 2016

12:00

Free admission

VISUAL ARTS

3 urban experiments by Candy ChangThe OCC to Thessaloniki

Having intervened from Hong Kong to Las Vegas in anything and everything that could be considered public space, the celebrated visual artist is coming to Thessaloniki with three of her site-specific installations.

THEATRE

Nova Melancholia"The Dead Man" by Georges Bataille

An original rendition of Georges Bataille’s short piece of erotic prose "The Dead Man" staged by the contemporary theatre and performance collective Nova Melancholia in the context of the Hypnos Project.

9 May 2016

19:00Upper Stage

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Body: Hypnos, death and resurrectionA conversation in the context of the Hypnos Project

How do we understand the body in time, and how do we experience its decay and end?

THEATRE

Roula Pateraki"Post Inferno - To Damascus" by August Strindberg

The Greek premiere of a masterpiece by the great Swedish playwright, an oneiric drama of existential, philosophical and theological dilemmas, autobiographical confessions and bursts of comedy, in a fine production from a grande dame of the Greek stage.

MUSIC

Voices In SpaceNeue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Six young Mediterranean composers join forces with the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, whose voices will make their presence felt at the Diplareios school.

14 May 2016

23:59Multiple stages

Free admission

MUSIC

six d.o.g.s pyjama party

An overnight pyjama party with sounds and people of today.

16 - 29 May 2016

Outside the OCC

THEATRE

FFF | And For The Rest (Athens)Tim Etchells

A right to vote: 'no' – A right to want: 'yes'. The founder and director of Forced Entertainment, the legendary experimental performance company, fills the streets of Athens with messages from those who can't vote - adults, teenagers and children.

16 May - 5 June 2016

FESTIVALS

Fast Forward Festival 3On the border(line)s of art

Artists from Amsterdam, Beirut, Brussels, Cape Town, Melbourne, Ramallah, Sheffield and Tel Aviv dissolve any sense of geographic and cultural borders with performances at the OCC and outdoors.

16 May - 5 June 2016

40 Peiraios str, Omonoia sq.

Presale:
Full price: 5 €
Reduced-Unemployed: 3€
Tickets at the door:
Cash only (available 30’ before the show)

The activity takes place in a non-theatrical venue which is not accessible to people with mobility impairments.

THEATRE

FFF | Domo de Eŭropa Historio en ekzilo (House of European History in Exile)Thomas Bellinck

Α futuristic history of the present with ample black humor... Presenting the EU as a brief historical intermezzo, this sharply critical, yet loving installation teleports its audience to a dystopia which somehow looks oddly familiar.

16 May 2016

TALKS & THOUGHTS

What is the meaning of dreams? The "royal road to the unconscious", random firings of neurons during the REM-phase or the reason we go to sleep?

16 May 2016

21:00Main Stage

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

FFF | Lecture by Tim Etchells

Artist Tim Etchells talks about his work with language, art and performance focusing on the posters project "And For The Rest (Athens)".

17 May 2016

Upper Stage

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

Utopia 500

At a time devoid of hope, what is the meaning of the word utopia?

20 - 22 May 2016

Syntagma Square, Athens centre

Free admission

THEATRE

FFF | small metal objectsBack to Back Theatre

We are at Syntagma Square, in central Athens. We’re watching from a bank of raised seating, each with a set of headphones. We observe passers-by and they observe us. Suddenly, theatre and reality are turned inside out.

21 - 23 May 2016

Inside & Outside the OCC

Free entrance events and events with tickets (see below the ticket prices for each event).
You can purchase the Family Tickets at the OCC's Box Office or with debit/credit card (Visa-Mastercard) at T. 213 017 8036.

MUSIC

Big Bang Festival 2Adventurous music festival for young audiences

The European music festival for young people and the adventurous visitors 0-12 years old stops off for second year at the OCC!

24 - 29 May 2016

23 Akadimias str, Athens

Presale:
Full price: 10 €
Reduced-Unemployed: 5€
Tickets at the door:
10 € cash only (available 30’ before the show)

The activity takes place in a non-theatrical venue which is not accessible to people with mobility impairments.

THEATRE

FFF | Exhibit BBrett Bailey

Presented throughout the world, this stimulating exhibition/performance confronts the history of racism and the current dehumanizing policies towards immigrants and refugees in various parts of the world.

DANCE

FFF | ArchiveArkadi Zaides

25 May 2016

TALKS & THOUGHTS

FFF | Thomas Bellinck in a conversation with the philosopher Srećko Horvat

A thought-provoking debate, which aims to dig deeper into the complex concurrence of crises in the EU.

26 May 2016

19:00Upper Stage

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

FFF | Lecture by Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela (Exterritory project) with the title “Preparations for Extraterritorial Scenarios”

How can artworks navigate the intersection between political and legal and in the same time traverse through issues of censorship, activism and transparency?

27 - 28 May 2016

Free admission

TALKS & THOUGHTS

FFF | Symposium: “Art at the borders: spatial politics and post-colonial strategies in the Middle East”

A two-day symposium with artist’ talks, screenings, keynote lectures and panels which focuses on the practices that reflect the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

28 May - 19 June 2016

First Cemetary, Athens (29 Anapafseos and Trivonianou, Mets)

Free admission

VISUAL ARTS

The City of the SleepingSound Walk & Sound Installation at the First Cemetary, Athens

In the context of the main exhibition of the Hypnos Project, the Onassis Cultural Centre invites you to a sound and kinesthetic encounter with the First Cemetary, Athens: walk in this city within the city and listen to its sounds of silence.

29 - 30 May 2016

THEATRE

FFF | Web of TrustEdit Kaldor

How many clicks, tweets and likes are needed for an uprising? The Internet, social media and digital tools are utilized in the wired performance of Edit Kaldor, one of the most innovative directors of the contemporary scene.

Workshop with Kirsty Housley, the co-director of “The Encounter”

3 April 2016

ADULTS

Workshop with the dissonArt ensembleReading session for new works

The dissonArt ensemble invites young composers to bring new works in order to provide them with the opportunity to perform their works for the first time.

6 April - 8 April 2016

Participation cost: Free

SCHOOLS

Liquid VibrationsTraining and practice in Sonic Hydrotherapy with Joel Cahen in collaboration with Steve Karle

A three-day free workshop for special educators and children with disabilities which facilitates underwater listening sessions at hydrotherapy pools.

10 April 2016

11:00

Participation cost: 10 €

CHILDREN

Workshop with Jan Anderzén: A Composer Portrait Workshop

How does music transform in to lines and colors on paper? A children's workshop like a party!

19 April - 15 June 2016

For students of primary schools (of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Grade), Secondary schools and High schools

SCHOOLS

School Visits at the Main Exhibition of Hypnos ProjectStudents are introduced to important Greek artists

Discover historical masterpieces of Greek artists and take part in the Hypnos Project’s experiential workshops.

23 April - 24 April 2016

12:00

Cost: 16 €

ADULTS

Theatre workshop by Helgard Haug and Daniel Wetzel (Rimini Protokoll)

What is the Rimini Protokoll way of processing their theatre projects? Which are techniques and how the brain science is involved?

7 - 21 May 2016

36 € (for the whole series)

CHILDREN

The Future Band Comes to the Onassis Cultural Centre

A team of children meets, improvises, composes music and presents it at the Onassis Cultural Centre.

21 May 2016

Outside the OCC & Upper Stage

Free entrance events and events with tickets (see below the ticket prices for each event).
You can purchase the Family Tickets at the OCC's Box Office or with debit/credit card (Visa-Mastercard) at T. 213 017 8036.

FAMILIES

Big Bang Festival 2Adventurous music festival for young audiences

The explosive European music festival for youth and adventurous listeners returns once again at the Onassis Cultural Centre.

25 May - 12 June 2016

4th Floor Foyer

Free admission

ADULTS

Visual arts exhibition by people 65+ yrsArtworks from the OCC's Visual Arts workshops for people over 65 years

An exhibition as a sample collection of the work produced over the past 3 years by a group of senior people.

4 July - 15 July 2016

Cost: 60 € (for each workshop)

CHILDREN

Summer workshops for children 8-12 years old

Summer is here, at the OCC! Come with us in order to save the planet and enjoy ourselves with the power of 3D technology.

26 September 2015

11:30Main Stage

Tickets: 60 €
Concessions: 40 €

DESIGN

Digitized 2015

The conference that brings together some of the world’s brightest minds in the sphere of digital creativity.

9 November 2015

Upper Stage

Presale: 15 €
Concessions: 10 €
Last week: 20 €

DESIGN

A Meeting For Industrial Design

A one-day conference which brings together industrial design specialists and the public.

17 February 2016

17:30Main Stage

Presale: 40 €
Concessions: 30 €
Last week: 50 €

DESIGN

ESO - Interior Deign & Architecture

A colloquium dedicated to architecture and interior design featuring big names from Greece and abroad.

14 April 2016

20:00Main Stage

15 €

DESIGN

Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards 2016

The Greek Graphic Design & Illustration Awards bring together, evaluate and award Greece’s best work in the sphere of visual communication.